Planning a trip to Walt Disney World? Then you’ll want to be aware of the most recent ticket price increases and changes.

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These increases affect the following areas: date-based tickets (which you can read about here), multi-park tickets for select dates, water park annual passes, and additionally, a new model for optional preferred parking.

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We’ve compared dates at the old pricing model and the new pricing model below so that you can see how the new ticket pricing system will affect YOUR trip.

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The new system:

• Assigns each individual calendar day a specific ticket price (each day reflects a different price based on various factors like crowd levels)
• Uses an interactive calendar for ticket purchasing, and to show guests the highest and lowest ticket prices within a given month or year
• Offers guests the option to upgrade to a ticket with a “flexible start date” for an added cost. [Read more…]

As we know, Disney World is switching on October 16th, 2018, to a date-based ticketing system for its theme parks. This means that when you purchase tickets for Disney World, each day will have its own individual price based on multiple factors, versus every ticket costing the same amount.

The new system will:

Assign each individual calendar day a specific ticket price (each day will reflect a different price based on various factors like crowd levels)

Use an interactive calendar for ticket purchasing, and to show guests the highest and lowest ticket prices within a given month or year

Offer guests the option to upgrade to a ticket with a “flexible start date” for an added cost.

Since this news came out on Monday, we’ve gotten plenty of great questions from our readers and social media followers about the system. And while we don’t have ALL the answers, we can at least help with a few of these!